Quotes by Russell, Bertrand

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opin >>

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value i >>

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than >>

Quotations about Evolution

After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a st >>

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other liv >>

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for >>

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Russell, Bertrand